[SOURCES: TV Guide, New York Metropolitan Edition, Oct. 21-27, 1972; also, day's listings in The New York Times, Daily News, New York Post, Connecticut Sunday Herald (Oct. 22, 1972 issue) and Red Bank (NJ) Daily Register (Oct. 27, 1972 issue); show episode info, where applicable, courtesy IMDb and TV.com]
(BW) - Black & White
WCBS-TV 2 New York (CBS; owned and operated) (translator: W53AA 53)
6:17a Give Us This Day
6:20a Morning Report
6:30a Sunrise Semester (20th Century American Art: The Abstract School develops in New York)
7:00a CBS Morning News with John Hart
8:00a Captain Kangaroo (5000th show with guests Dick Van Dyke, Sonny & Cher, Rowan & Martin, Dinah Shore and Dr.
Joyce Brothers; with clips of the show from 1955 to the date of this edition)
9:00a The John Bartholomew Tucker Show (scheduled: Maj. Gen. Daniel James Jr., Gloria Steinem)
10:00a The Joker's Wild
10:30a The New Price Is Right
11:00a Gambit
11:30a Love of Life
12:00p Where the Heart Is
12:25p CBS Midday News with Douglas Edwards
12:30p Search for Tomorrow
1:00p What's My Line? (panelists: Soupy Sales, Arlene Francis, Melba Tolliver, Allen Ludden; host: Larry Blyden;
taped 10/12/72)
1:30p As the World Turns
2:00p The Guiding Light
2:30p The Edge of Night
3:00p Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
3:30p The Secret Storm
4:00p Family Affair - "Arthur, the Invisible Bear" [original airdate 10/2/67]
4:30p The Mike Douglas Show (guests: Lou Rawls, Richard Attenborough, Simon Ward)
6:00p Six O'Clock Report with Jim Jensen
7:00p CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
7:30p Circus! - "Mary's Circus" (from England; includes Mary Chipperfield's Jungle Fantasy with lions, tigers and bears)
8:00p The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (guests: William Conrad, Rick Springfield)
9:00p The CBS Friday Night Movies: "The McKenzie Break" (1970) - Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry
11:00p Eleven O'Clock Report with Jim Jensen
11:30p The CBS Late Movie: "Land Raiders" (1969) - Telly Savalas, George Maharis, Arlene Dahl
1:30a The Late Show: "This Man's Navy" (1944) Wallace Beery, James Gleason (BW)
3:50a The Late Late Show: "Escape to Burma" (1955) - Robert Ryan, Barbara Stanwyck
5:15a Give Us This Day
followed by sign-off
WNBC-TV 4 New York (NBC; owned and operated) (translator: W57AB 57)
6:25a Sermonette (C)
6:30a Modern Farmer
7:00a Today (scheduled: Rudolf Bing, to discuss "5,000 Nights at the Opera"; and the Jacqus Louissier Trio in concert;
host: Frank McGee) (interrupted by local news updates at 7:25a and 8:25a)11
9:00a Not for Women Only (Barbara Walters hosts a discussion on alcoholism)
9:30a Watch Your Child (a lesson in sculpting with clay)
10:00a Dinah's Place (guest: tennis star Evonne Goolagong)
10:30a Concentration
11:00a Sale of the Century
11:30a The Hollywood Squares (squares: Lucie Arnaz, Mel Brooks, Victor Buono, Charo, Nanette Fabray, Michael Landon,
Roger Miller, Wally Cox, and Paul Lynde; host: Peter Marshall)
12:00p Jeopardy!
12:30p The Who, What or Where Game
12:55p NBC News - Floyd Kalber
1:00p It's Your Bet
1:30p Three on a Match
2:00p Days of our Lives
2:30p The Doctors
3:00p Another World
3:30p Return to Peyton Place
4:00p Somerset
4:30p Movie Four: "You're a Big Boy Now" (1967) - Peter Kastner, Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page
6:00p The Sixth Hour with Carl Stokes and Paul Udell
7:00p NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor
7:30p The Adventurer - "Love Always, Magda"
8:00p Sanford and Son - "The Card Sharps"
8:30p The Little People - "The Birthday Boy"
9:00p Ghost Story - "Alter Ego"
10:00p Banyon - "The Clay Clarinet" (guest: John Saxon)
11:00p The Eleventh Hour with Jim Hartz
11:30p The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (scheduled: Jo Anne Worley)
1:00a News - John Masterman
1:15a The Great Great Show: "Open City" (1946) - Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi (BW)
3:15a Sermonette (C)
followed by sign-off
WNEW-TV 5 New York (Independent; owned by Metromedia Television) (translator: W64AA 64)
6:20a Call to Prayer
6:30a New Zoo Revue
7:00a Underdog
7:30a The Flintstones
8:00a Super Heroes
8:30a Bugs Bunny & Friends
9:00a The Flying Nun - "No Tears for Mrs. Thomas" [original airdate 4/3/70]
9:30a The Mothers-in-Law - "Even Mothers-in-Law Have Mothers-in-Law" [original airdate 10/20/68]
10:00a I Love Lucy - "Lucy Is Enceinte" (BW) [original airdate 12/8/52]
10:30a Hazel - "Hazel Needs a Car" [original airdate 11/1/65]
11:00a The Andy Griffith Show - "A Baby in the House" [original airdate 3/7/66]
11:30p Midday Live (scheduled: columnist Marvin Kitman; host: Lee Leonard)
1:00p Dialing for Dollars Movie: "Sing You Sinners" (1938) - Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray (BW)
3:00p Casper the Friendly Ghost
3:30p Bugs Bunny & Friends
4:00p Super Heroes
4:30p Dennis the Menace - "Dennis and the Bike" (BW) [original airdate 1/24/60]
5:00p The Flintstones - "Hawaiian Escapade" [original airdate 11/16/62]
5:30p Petticoat Junction - "The Butler Did It" [original airdate 12/28/65]
6:00p The Flintstones - "The Gruesomes" [original airdate 11/12/64]
6:30p I Love Lucy - "Ragtime Band" (BW) [original airdate 3/18/57]
7:00p The Andy Griffith Show - "Jailbreak" (BW) [original airdate 2/5/62]
7:30p That Girl - "It's a Mod, Mod World" (Part 2) [original airdate 12/14/67]
8:00p Hogan's Heroes - "The Kamikazes Are Coming" [original airdate 2/21/71]
8:30p The Merv Griffin Show (scheduled: Chad Everett, Joan Rivers)
10:00p The 10 O'Clock News with Bill Jorgensen
11:00p Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "Heart of Gold" (BW) [original airdate 10/27/57] (per TV Guide)
alt:
One Step Beyond - "Moment of Hate" (BW) [original airdate 10/25/60] (per Sunday Herald)
11:30p Movie Greats I: "Virginia" (1941) - Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray
1:15a Movie Greats II: "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1959) - Peter Cushing, Andre Morrell
3:00a Hollywood's Finest: "The Moon's Our Home" (1936) - Margaret Sullavan, Henry Fonda (BW)
4:50a Sea Hunt - "The Aquanettes" (BW) [original airdate 3/25/61]
5:20a Truth or Consequences
WABC-TV 7 New York (ABC; owned and operated) (translator: W66AA 66)
6:30a Listen and Learn (highlights from "The Bacchae") (listed in TV Guide as BW)
7:00a A.M. New York (scheduled: Dr. Harold Greenwald and his wife)
9:00a The Morning Movie: "Anna and the King of Siam" (1946) - Rex Harrison, Irene Dunne (BW)
11:30a Bewitched - "Tabitha's First Day at School" [original airdate 2/12/72]
12:00p Password (celebrity contestants: Abby Dalton and Peter Lawford)
12:30p Split Second
1:00p All My Children
1:30p Let's Make a Deal
2:00p The Newlywed Game
2:30p The Dating Game
3:00p General Hospital
3:30p One Life to Live
4:00p Love, American Style - "Love and the Free Weekend / Love and the Jealous Husband" [original airdate 11/12/71]
4:30p The 4:30 Movie: "The Lost World" (1960) - Michael Rennie, Jill St. John
6:00p Eyewitness News with Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel
7:00p ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner
7:30p Let's Make a Deal
8:00p The Brady Bunch - "Fright Night"
8:30p The Partridge Family - "The Modfather"
9:00p Room 222 - "Lift, Thrust and Drag"
9:30p The Odd Couple - "The Odd Couples"
10:00p Love, American Style - "Love and the Happy Medium / Love and the Jinx / Love and the Little Black Book /
Love and the Old Swingers"
11:00p Eyewitness News with Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel
11:30p The Dick Cavett Show (guest host: Jack Klugman; scheduled: Brett Somers, Ethel Merman)
1:00a The One O'Clock Movie: "Requiem for a Heavyweight" (1962) - Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason (BW) (2 hrs.)
followed by sign-off
WOR-TV 9 New York (Independent; owned by RKO General) (translator: W71AK 71)
7:27a Morning Prayer
7:30a News and Weather
8:00a Garner Ted Armstrong
8:30a Tennessee Tuxedo
9:00a Yoga for Health (topic: poise and balance)
9:30a Mantrap (actor George Montgomery discusses his opposition to the women's liberation movement)
10:00a Romper Room (host: Miss Louise Redfield)
11:00a Straight Talk with Phyllis Haynes and Elinor Guggenheimer (scheduled guests include author Donald A. Randall;
auto repairs are discussed)
12:00p Los Hermanos Coraje
12:55p Noticias
1:00p Journey to Adventure - "This Is Louisiana" (Gunther Less visits the Mardi Gras)
1:30p The Joe Franklin Show
2:30p Joanne Carson's V.I.P.'s
3:00p Hollywood Showcase - "The Damned Don't Cry" (1950) - Joan Crawford, David Brian (BW)
5:00p First News with Tom Dunn
5:30p The Beverly Hillbillies - "The Woodchucks" [original airdate 12/7/66]
6:00p The Avengers - "From Venus With Love" [original UK airdate 1/11/67]
7:00p It Takes a Thief - "The Bill Is In Committee" [original airdate 10/8/68]
8:00p Pro Basketball - New York Knicks vs. Baltimore Bullets (announcers: Bob Wolff, Cal Ramsey)
[Knicks beat Bullets, 92-88]
10:30p American Lifestyle - "Beehive House: The American Lifestyle of Brigham Young" (narrated by E.G. Marshall)
11:00p Boris Karloff Presents Thriller - "Letter to a Lover" (BW) [original airdate 11/13/61]
12:00p Midnight Movie: "Phantom Lady" (1944) - Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Franchot Tone (BW)
1:55a The Joe Franklin Show
2:55a News and Weather
3:10a Evening Prayer
followed by sign-off
WPIX-TV 11 New York (Independent; licensor WPIX, Inc., owned by New York Daily News) (translator: W73AP 73)
7:00a Your Future Is Now
7:30a Popeye and Friends
9:00a Bachelor Father - "Bentley and the Talent Contest" (BW) [original airdate 1/5/58]
9:30a Fashions in Sewing with Lucille Rivers
9:40a Jack LaLanne
10:10a Morning Report
10:30a Council of Churches
11:00a Black Pride
11:30a Rocky and His Friends
12:00p Joya's Fun School (host: Joya Sherrill)
12:30p The Galloping Gourmet (Graham Kerr prepares ice cream)
1:00p Movie Favorites - "Touch of Death" (1959) - William Lucas, Jan Waters
2:00p Crafts with Katy (using dried wildflowers to make shadow box pictures)
2:30p Fashions in Sewing with Lucille Rivers
2:40p The Abbott & Costello Show - "Uncle Bozzo's Visit" [original airdate 1953]
3:00p Popeye and Friends
3:30p Magilla Gorilla
4:00p Spider-Man
4:30p The Munsters - "Tin Can Man" (BW) [original airdate 11/5/64]
5:00p Batman - "A Piece of the Action" [original airdate 3/1/67]
5:30p Batman - "Batman's Satisfaction" [original airdate 3/2/67]
6:00p Gilligan's Island - " 'V' for Vitamins" [original airdate 4/14/66]
6:30p Beat the Clock (guest: William Shatner)
7:00p I Dream of Jeannie - "Have You Heard the One About the Used Car Salesman" [original airdate 11/4/68]
7:30p The Courtship of Eddie's Father - "Eddie's Will" [original airdate 10/28/70]
8:00p Friday's Movie at Eight: "Twelve Angry Men" (1957) - Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb (BW)
10:00p Eleven's News at Ten with Doug Ramsey and Solon Gray
11:00p Perry Mason - "The Case of the Bogus Buccanneers" (BW) [original airdate 1/9/66]
12:00a The Honeymooners - "Young Man with a Horn" (BW) [original airdate 3/24/56]
12:30a Night Final with Roy Whitfield
12:55a Good News
followed by sign-off
WNET 13 Newark/New York (PBS affiliate; owned by Educational Broadcasting Corp.) (translator: W75AM 75)
7:00a Maggie and the Beautiful Machine (host: Maggie Lettwin)
7:30a The 51st State with Patrick Watson
8:00a School Television Service (science and language arts)
9:00a Sesame Street (how oxygen supports life; sketches on the letters W and E, and number 11)
10:00a School Television Service (science, mathematics, language arts)
12:00p To Be Announced
12:30p The Just Generation - "Drug Law"
1:00p School Television Service (social studies and early childhood)
1:30p The Electric Company (featured: Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin; songs and sketches on the letter L) (R)
2:00p School Television Service (science and social studies)
3:00p Western Civilization - "Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt" (1381)
3:30p Maggie and the Beautiful Machine - "Slow and Easy"
4:00p Sesame Street (same as 10:00a)
5:00p Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (topic: individuality)
5:30p The Electric Company (same as 1:30p)
6:00p Hodgepodge Lodge (learning about earthworms)
6:30p Masquerade ("The Pied Piper of Hamelin" with Bill Hinnant as piano playing piper; "The Forgetful Husband" with
Avery Schreiber and Barbara Sharma)
7:00p World Press
7:30p The 51st State with Patrick Watson
8:00p Washington Week in Review
8:30p Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser - "On McGovernomics" (guest: Nobel Prize economist Paul A. Samuelson)
9:00p The Advocates - "Five Rounds to Election Day - Round IV - Peace in Vietnam: McGovern's or Nixon's"
10:00p The 51st State Election Special (Fred Powledge discusses issues with the candidates in New Jersey's 5th, 10th and
12th congressional districts)
11:00p Special of the Week - "Profile in Music: Shirley Verrett" (90 min.)
followed by sign-off
(BW) - Black & White
WCBS-TV 2 New York (CBS; owned and operated) (translator: W53AA 53)
6:17a Give Us This Day
6:20a Morning Report
6:30a Sunrise Semester (20th Century American Art: The Abstract School develops in New York)
7:00a CBS Morning News with John Hart
8:00a Captain Kangaroo (5000th show with guests Dick Van Dyke, Sonny & Cher, Rowan & Martin, Dinah Shore and Dr.
Joyce Brothers; with clips of the show from 1955 to the date of this edition)
9:00a The John Bartholomew Tucker Show (scheduled: Maj. Gen. Daniel James Jr., Gloria Steinem)
10:00a The Joker's Wild
10:30a The New Price Is Right
11:00a Gambit
11:30a Love of Life
12:00p Where the Heart Is
12:25p CBS Midday News with Douglas Edwards
12:30p Search for Tomorrow
1:00p What's My Line? (panelists: Soupy Sales, Arlene Francis, Melba Tolliver, Allen Ludden; host: Larry Blyden;
taped 10/12/72)
1:30p As the World Turns
2:00p The Guiding Light
2:30p The Edge of Night
3:00p Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
3:30p The Secret Storm
4:00p Family Affair - "Arthur, the Invisible Bear" [original airdate 10/2/67]
4:30p The Mike Douglas Show (guests: Lou Rawls, Richard Attenborough, Simon Ward)
6:00p Six O'Clock Report with Jim Jensen
7:00p CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
7:30p Circus! - "Mary's Circus" (from England; includes Mary Chipperfield's Jungle Fantasy with lions, tigers and bears)
8:00p The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (guests: William Conrad, Rick Springfield)
9:00p The CBS Friday Night Movies: "The McKenzie Break" (1970) - Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry
11:00p Eleven O'Clock Report with Jim Jensen
11:30p The CBS Late Movie: "Land Raiders" (1969) - Telly Savalas, George Maharis, Arlene Dahl
1:30a The Late Show: "This Man's Navy" (1944) Wallace Beery, James Gleason (BW)
3:50a The Late Late Show: "Escape to Burma" (1955) - Robert Ryan, Barbara Stanwyck
5:15a Give Us This Day
followed by sign-off
WNBC-TV 4 New York (NBC; owned and operated) (translator: W57AB 57)
6:25a Sermonette (C)
6:30a Modern Farmer
7:00a Today (scheduled: Rudolf Bing, to discuss "5,000 Nights at the Opera"; and the Jacqus Louissier Trio in concert;
host: Frank McGee) (interrupted by local news updates at 7:25a and 8:25a)11
9:00a Not for Women Only (Barbara Walters hosts a discussion on alcoholism)
9:30a Watch Your Child (a lesson in sculpting with clay)
10:00a Dinah's Place (guest: tennis star Evonne Goolagong)
10:30a Concentration
11:00a Sale of the Century
11:30a The Hollywood Squares (squares: Lucie Arnaz, Mel Brooks, Victor Buono, Charo, Nanette Fabray, Michael Landon,
Roger Miller, Wally Cox, and Paul Lynde; host: Peter Marshall)
12:00p Jeopardy!
12:30p The Who, What or Where Game
12:55p NBC News - Floyd Kalber
1:00p It's Your Bet
1:30p Three on a Match
2:00p Days of our Lives
2:30p The Doctors
3:00p Another World
3:30p Return to Peyton Place
4:00p Somerset
4:30p Movie Four: "You're a Big Boy Now" (1967) - Peter Kastner, Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page
6:00p The Sixth Hour with Carl Stokes and Paul Udell
7:00p NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor
7:30p The Adventurer - "Love Always, Magda"
8:00p Sanford and Son - "The Card Sharps"
8:30p The Little People - "The Birthday Boy"
9:00p Ghost Story - "Alter Ego"
10:00p Banyon - "The Clay Clarinet" (guest: John Saxon)
11:00p The Eleventh Hour with Jim Hartz
11:30p The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (scheduled: Jo Anne Worley)
1:00a News - John Masterman
1:15a The Great Great Show: "Open City" (1946) - Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi (BW)
3:15a Sermonette (C)
followed by sign-off
WNEW-TV 5 New York (Independent; owned by Metromedia Television) (translator: W64AA 64)
6:20a Call to Prayer
6:30a New Zoo Revue
7:00a Underdog
7:30a The Flintstones
8:00a Super Heroes
8:30a Bugs Bunny & Friends
9:00a The Flying Nun - "No Tears for Mrs. Thomas" [original airdate 4/3/70]
9:30a The Mothers-in-Law - "Even Mothers-in-Law Have Mothers-in-Law" [original airdate 10/20/68]
10:00a I Love Lucy - "Lucy Is Enceinte" (BW) [original airdate 12/8/52]
10:30a Hazel - "Hazel Needs a Car" [original airdate 11/1/65]
11:00a The Andy Griffith Show - "A Baby in the House" [original airdate 3/7/66]
11:30p Midday Live (scheduled: columnist Marvin Kitman; host: Lee Leonard)
1:00p Dialing for Dollars Movie: "Sing You Sinners" (1938) - Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray (BW)
3:00p Casper the Friendly Ghost
3:30p Bugs Bunny & Friends
4:00p Super Heroes
4:30p Dennis the Menace - "Dennis and the Bike" (BW) [original airdate 1/24/60]
5:00p The Flintstones - "Hawaiian Escapade" [original airdate 11/16/62]
5:30p Petticoat Junction - "The Butler Did It" [original airdate 12/28/65]
6:00p The Flintstones - "The Gruesomes" [original airdate 11/12/64]
6:30p I Love Lucy - "Ragtime Band" (BW) [original airdate 3/18/57]
7:00p The Andy Griffith Show - "Jailbreak" (BW) [original airdate 2/5/62]
7:30p That Girl - "It's a Mod, Mod World" (Part 2) [original airdate 12/14/67]
8:00p Hogan's Heroes - "The Kamikazes Are Coming" [original airdate 2/21/71]
8:30p The Merv Griffin Show (scheduled: Chad Everett, Joan Rivers)
10:00p The 10 O'Clock News with Bill Jorgensen
11:00p Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "Heart of Gold" (BW) [original airdate 10/27/57] (per TV Guide)
alt:
One Step Beyond - "Moment of Hate" (BW) [original airdate 10/25/60] (per Sunday Herald)
11:30p Movie Greats I: "Virginia" (1941) - Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray
1:15a Movie Greats II: "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1959) - Peter Cushing, Andre Morrell
3:00a Hollywood's Finest: "The Moon's Our Home" (1936) - Margaret Sullavan, Henry Fonda (BW)
4:50a Sea Hunt - "The Aquanettes" (BW) [original airdate 3/25/61]
5:20a Truth or Consequences
WABC-TV 7 New York (ABC; owned and operated) (translator: W66AA 66)
6:30a Listen and Learn (highlights from "The Bacchae") (listed in TV Guide as BW)
7:00a A.M. New York (scheduled: Dr. Harold Greenwald and his wife)
9:00a The Morning Movie: "Anna and the King of Siam" (1946) - Rex Harrison, Irene Dunne (BW)
11:30a Bewitched - "Tabitha's First Day at School" [original airdate 2/12/72]
12:00p Password (celebrity contestants: Abby Dalton and Peter Lawford)
12:30p Split Second
1:00p All My Children
1:30p Let's Make a Deal
2:00p The Newlywed Game
2:30p The Dating Game
3:00p General Hospital
3:30p One Life to Live
4:00p Love, American Style - "Love and the Free Weekend / Love and the Jealous Husband" [original airdate 11/12/71]
4:30p The 4:30 Movie: "The Lost World" (1960) - Michael Rennie, Jill St. John
6:00p Eyewitness News with Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel
7:00p ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner
7:30p Let's Make a Deal
8:00p The Brady Bunch - "Fright Night"
8:30p The Partridge Family - "The Modfather"
9:00p Room 222 - "Lift, Thrust and Drag"
9:30p The Odd Couple - "The Odd Couples"
10:00p Love, American Style - "Love and the Happy Medium / Love and the Jinx / Love and the Little Black Book /
Love and the Old Swingers"
11:00p Eyewitness News with Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel
11:30p The Dick Cavett Show (guest host: Jack Klugman; scheduled: Brett Somers, Ethel Merman)
1:00a The One O'Clock Movie: "Requiem for a Heavyweight" (1962) - Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason (BW) (2 hrs.)
followed by sign-off
WOR-TV 9 New York (Independent; owned by RKO General) (translator: W71AK 71)
7:27a Morning Prayer
7:30a News and Weather
8:00a Garner Ted Armstrong
8:30a Tennessee Tuxedo
9:00a Yoga for Health (topic: poise and balance)
9:30a Mantrap (actor George Montgomery discusses his opposition to the women's liberation movement)
10:00a Romper Room (host: Miss Louise Redfield)
11:00a Straight Talk with Phyllis Haynes and Elinor Guggenheimer (scheduled guests include author Donald A. Randall;
auto repairs are discussed)
12:00p Los Hermanos Coraje
12:55p Noticias
1:00p Journey to Adventure - "This Is Louisiana" (Gunther Less visits the Mardi Gras)
1:30p The Joe Franklin Show
2:30p Joanne Carson's V.I.P.'s
3:00p Hollywood Showcase - "The Damned Don't Cry" (1950) - Joan Crawford, David Brian (BW)
5:00p First News with Tom Dunn
5:30p The Beverly Hillbillies - "The Woodchucks" [original airdate 12/7/66]
6:00p The Avengers - "From Venus With Love" [original UK airdate 1/11/67]
7:00p It Takes a Thief - "The Bill Is In Committee" [original airdate 10/8/68]
8:00p Pro Basketball - New York Knicks vs. Baltimore Bullets (announcers: Bob Wolff, Cal Ramsey)
[Knicks beat Bullets, 92-88]
10:30p American Lifestyle - "Beehive House: The American Lifestyle of Brigham Young" (narrated by E.G. Marshall)
11:00p Boris Karloff Presents Thriller - "Letter to a Lover" (BW) [original airdate 11/13/61]
12:00p Midnight Movie: "Phantom Lady" (1944) - Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Franchot Tone (BW)
1:55a The Joe Franklin Show
2:55a News and Weather
3:10a Evening Prayer
followed by sign-off
WPIX-TV 11 New York (Independent; licensor WPIX, Inc., owned by New York Daily News) (translator: W73AP 73)
7:00a Your Future Is Now
7:30a Popeye and Friends
9:00a Bachelor Father - "Bentley and the Talent Contest" (BW) [original airdate 1/5/58]
9:30a Fashions in Sewing with Lucille Rivers
9:40a Jack LaLanne
10:10a Morning Report
10:30a Council of Churches
11:00a Black Pride
11:30a Rocky and His Friends
12:00p Joya's Fun School (host: Joya Sherrill)
12:30p The Galloping Gourmet (Graham Kerr prepares ice cream)
1:00p Movie Favorites - "Touch of Death" (1959) - William Lucas, Jan Waters
2:00p Crafts with Katy (using dried wildflowers to make shadow box pictures)
2:30p Fashions in Sewing with Lucille Rivers
2:40p The Abbott & Costello Show - "Uncle Bozzo's Visit" [original airdate 1953]
3:00p Popeye and Friends
3:30p Magilla Gorilla
4:00p Spider-Man
4:30p The Munsters - "Tin Can Man" (BW) [original airdate 11/5/64]
5:00p Batman - "A Piece of the Action" [original airdate 3/1/67]
5:30p Batman - "Batman's Satisfaction" [original airdate 3/2/67]
6:00p Gilligan's Island - " 'V' for Vitamins" [original airdate 4/14/66]
6:30p Beat the Clock (guest: William Shatner)
7:00p I Dream of Jeannie - "Have You Heard the One About the Used Car Salesman" [original airdate 11/4/68]
7:30p The Courtship of Eddie's Father - "Eddie's Will" [original airdate 10/28/70]
8:00p Friday's Movie at Eight: "Twelve Angry Men" (1957) - Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb (BW)
10:00p Eleven's News at Ten with Doug Ramsey and Solon Gray
11:00p Perry Mason - "The Case of the Bogus Buccanneers" (BW) [original airdate 1/9/66]
12:00a The Honeymooners - "Young Man with a Horn" (BW) [original airdate 3/24/56]
12:30a Night Final with Roy Whitfield
12:55a Good News
followed by sign-off
WNET 13 Newark/New York (PBS affiliate; owned by Educational Broadcasting Corp.) (translator: W75AM 75)
7:00a Maggie and the Beautiful Machine (host: Maggie Lettwin)
7:30a The 51st State with Patrick Watson
8:00a School Television Service (science and language arts)
9:00a Sesame Street (how oxygen supports life; sketches on the letters W and E, and number 11)
10:00a School Television Service (science, mathematics, language arts)
12:00p To Be Announced
12:30p The Just Generation - "Drug Law"
1:00p School Television Service (social studies and early childhood)
1:30p The Electric Company (featured: Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin; songs and sketches on the letter L) (R)
2:00p School Television Service (science and social studies)
3:00p Western Civilization - "Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt" (1381)
3:30p Maggie and the Beautiful Machine - "Slow and Easy"
4:00p Sesame Street (same as 10:00a)
5:00p Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (topic: individuality)
5:30p The Electric Company (same as 1:30p)
6:00p Hodgepodge Lodge (learning about earthworms)
6:30p Masquerade ("The Pied Piper of Hamelin" with Bill Hinnant as piano playing piper; "The Forgetful Husband" with
Avery Schreiber and Barbara Sharma)
7:00p World Press
7:30p The 51st State with Patrick Watson
8:00p Washington Week in Review
8:30p Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser - "On McGovernomics" (guest: Nobel Prize economist Paul A. Samuelson)
9:00p The Advocates - "Five Rounds to Election Day - Round IV - Peace in Vietnam: McGovern's or Nixon's"
10:00p The 51st State Election Special (Fred Powledge discusses issues with the candidates in New Jersey's 5th, 10th and
12th congressional districts)
11:00p Special of the Week - "Profile in Music: Shirley Verrett" (90 min.)
followed by sign-off